Paprika
is a 2006 Japanese science-fiction psychological thriller anime film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name, about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams. It is Kon's fourth and final feature film before his death in 2010. The film stars the voices of Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tōru Furuya, Akio Ōtsuka, Kōichi Yamadera, and Hideyuki Tanaka.
Plot
In the near future, a newly-created device called the "DC Mini" allows the user to view people's dreams. The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside of the research facility, by assuming her dream world alter-ego/other personality "Paprika". Chiba's closest allies are Doctor Toratarō Shima, the chief of the department, and Doctor Kōsaku Tokita, an obese, genius man-child and inventor of the DC Mini.
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author | Satoshi Kon Seishi Minakami |
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award | Animation Kobe Theatrical Film Award |
director | Satoshi Kon |
editor | Takeshi Seyama |
events | telepresence |
genre | science fiction thriller |
keywords | capture dream therapy dream world giant robot kill machine movie theatre near future omnipotence psychiatric patients real world recurring dream research facility shoot team work twist unfinished |
musicBy | Susumu Hirasawa |
producer | Jungo Maruta Masao Takiyama |
productionCompany | Madhouse |
publisher | Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan |
theme | animated anime cyberpunk japanese psychological thriller |